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with flowers of various colors. The hybrids “President Mc- 
Kinley” and “Tonso-Charlesworthii” have particularly 
large, well-shaped flowers. Cypripediwm hirsutissimum, a 
native of the Burmese region, is interesting because of its 
hairy flowers with purple petals. 
In an adjoining house, the collection of rainbow flowers 
(Ixora Fraseri), natives of India, with their large, crimson 
ors give a pleasing effect among the various foliage 
plants. 
NOTES 
Miss Herta Toeppen, a graduate of the Garden course, now 
of Buffalo, New York, visited the Garden, December 31. 
On January 5, Dr. L. D. Haigh of the Department of 
oueune Chemistry of Missouri University, visited the 
arden. 
The exhibition collection of succulent plants has been con- 
siderably augmented by new varieties formerly growing in 
the propagating houses. 
Dr. M. J. Dorsey, Professor of Horticulture in the Univer- 
sity of Minnesota, is spending a month at work in the 
Graduate Laboratory, and in the Library. 
Mr. W. W. Ohlweiler, General Manager of the Garden, 
addressed the Garden Club of Webster Groves, Missouri, on 
January 12. The subject of Mr. Ohlweiler’s address was - 
“Garden Plans.” 
Prof. J. C. Arthur and Mr. Fromme, both of Purdue 
University, visited the Garden on February 6, en route for 
the Southwest, where they will spend some time in the col- 
lection of rust fungi. 
A special course in the gelaete morphology of higher 
plants, including the chief functions of the various plant- 
organs, is being conducted at the Garden by Dr. J. M. Green- 
man, Curator of the Herbarium. 
Twenty salesmen, of the Forbes Bros. Tea and Spice Oo., 
under the leadership of Mr. George Lang, Jr., were conducted 
through the Garden, December 30. The visitors were es- 
pecially interested in the economic section of the new con- 
servatory. 
Mr. E. C. Ewing, Agronomist to the Mississippi Agricul- 
tation, 
tural Experiment is spending half a semester in the 
Graduate Laboratory, working over some extensive observa- _ 
